{"id":3407,"date":"2013-01-23T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T09:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/&#038;p=3407"},"modified":"2015-10-13T19:38:42","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T19:38:42","slug":"now-boarding-subculture-careers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/2013\/01\/23\/now-boarding-subculture-careers\/","title":{"rendered":"Now Boarding: Subculture Careers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='citation'>\n    <span class='authors'>Gregory J. Snyder, <\/span><span class='link'><a href=\"http:\/\/eth.sagepub.com\/content\/13\/3\/306.refs\">&ldquo;The City and the Subculture Career: Professional Street Skateboarding in LA,&rdquo; <em>Ethnography<\/em>,<\/a><\/span><span class='year'> 2012<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Skateboarding has long been the hobby\/sport of choice for disillusioned urban and suburban youth&#8212;spawning a fast-paced and thrill-seeking subculture that has become nearly universally loathed by parents. But it now appears that much of the ire that skateboarding and skateboarders have received over the years may be unwarranted. As Gregory J. Snyder (<em>Ethnography<\/em>, August 2012) writes, skateboarding\u2019s growing prominence has aided in the creation of countless career paths, both direct (as boarders) and indirect (as photographers, artists, publicists, managers, etc.). Given the context in which these economic opportunities have arisen, Snyder calls them \u201csubculture careers\u201d&#8212;unique positions largely owed to skateboarding\u2019s status as a subculture, not viable careers in spite of it. \u00a0While the subculture undoubtedly revolves around the skills and creativity of its most gifted boarders, these other positions are integral to the widespread dissemination of the craft.<\/p>\n<p>Snyder also goes on to credit much of skateboarding\u2019s remarkable expansion, from its origins as a niche hobby to its position as a global industry, to its communities\u2019 close ties with and novel uses of urban spaces. Not only are skateboarders frequently depicted performing gravity-defying tricks over urban obstacles, much of the skateboarding industry is situated in major American cities (in the case of this article, Los Angeles). Snyder argues that this connection to large urban environments helps draw in talented boarders and artists from throughout the world. In turn, this cosmopolitan group helps continually diversify and develop skateboarding from within.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gregory J. Snyder, &ldquo;The City and the Subculture Career: Professional Street Skateboarding in LA,&rdquo; Ethnography, 2012 Skateboarding has long been the hobby\/sport of choice for disillusioned urban and suburban youth&#8212;spawning a fast-paced and thrill-seeking subculture that has become nearly universally loathed by parents. But it now appears that much of the ire that skateboarding and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":495,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[14907,131,50,11290,100],"class_list":["post-3407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-sociology-of-culture","tag-economy","tag-sport","tag-subculture","tag-youth"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/495"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8317,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3407\/revisions\/8317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}